{"id":235,"date":"2011-06-30T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-09-06T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:50:16","slug":"rdist-vs-rsync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"rdist vs rsync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK why is there even any debate?  I just tried rsync&#8217;ing a directory with a couple hundred gigs to a USB drive, I had a few gigabytes that weren&#8217;t on the USB yet.  After several hours there didn&#8217;t seem to be any progress.  I set up rdist to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=156\">copy to a different directory<\/a> (\/mnt\/usb) on the localhost, and the copy is completed within 5 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, when I google around, I find comments going back a decade declaring rsync to be the superior copying tool.  hmmm.  hours = incomplete vs minutes = success; RDIST winning.<\/p>\n<p>PS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedikt-stockebrand.de\/rdist-intro_en.html\" title=\"rdist basics\">here is a great reference for using rdist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK why is there even any debate? I just tried rsync&#8217;ing a directory with a couple hundred gigs to a USB drive, I had a few gigabytes that weren&#8217;t on the USB yet. After several hours there didn&#8217;t seem to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}